Borrow: Definition and part of speech

Borrow

n. The act of borrowing.
v. t. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; — the opposite of lend.
v. t. To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; — a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
v. t. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
v. t. To feign or counterfeit.
v. t. To receive; to take; to derive.
n. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

a. The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.

n. Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

n. A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

n. Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
n. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

n. Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.
n. Figure; outline; show.
n. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.